Nassim Nicholas Talep “Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails” Published in 2020. A recent read compared to Markowitz “Portfolio Selection” published in “The Journal of Finance”, Vol. 7, No. 1. (Mar., 1952), pp. 77-91. Both of them are must reads. Markowitz passed away on 2023. I wonder if those two guys ever meet each other. If they ever did I wonder if they discussed their own approaches. I will search for it and let you know…
Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson spend good amount of time for making it understandable in the book “The (Mis)Behavior of Markets” “Markets are much riskier than we have been led to believe. They are prone to violent, unpredictable swings, and these swings are not mere anomalies but part of the natural order of things.” This quote highlights Mandelbrot’s critique of traditional models that underestimate market risk and fail to account for extreme events. “The…